James A. Bayard

James Asheton Bayard Sr. (28 July 1767-6 August 1815) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Delaware's at-large district from 4 March 1797 to 3 March 1803 (succeeding John Patten and preceding Caesar Augustus Rodney) and a US Senator from 13 November 1804 to 3 March 1813 (interrupting William H. Wells' terms). He was a member of the Federalist Party.

Biography
James Asheton Bayard Sr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1767, and he married the daughter of US Senator Richard Bassett. In 1787, he became a lawyer in Delaware, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1797 to 1803 and in the US Senate from 1804 to 1813, serving as a member of the Federalist Party. In 1800, he followed the advice of Alexander Hamilton and persuaded his fellow Federalists to abstain from voting, and he struck a deal with Thomas Jefferson to ensure that the Federalists were not swept from all of their government positions. Bayard died in 1815.